2001 Translation

PIKRA, pikra

Sounds Like: PIK-rah

Translations: bitter, bitterness, a bitter thing, a bitter experience

From the root: ΠΙΚΡΑ

Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun

Explanation: This word describes something that is bitter, either literally in taste or figuratively in an emotional or experiential sense. It can refer to a bitter taste, a bitter feeling like grief or resentment, or a bitter experience or outcome. It is often used to describe something harsh, severe, or unpleasant.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G4089 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:76

Codex Sinaiticus

• Proverbs — 27:7
• Sirach — 29:25, 30:17
• Jeremiah — 4:18
• Zephaniah — 1:14

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Four — 8:37

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 17:3, 20:3

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Samuel — 2:26
• Proverbs — 27:7
• Sirach — 25:18, 29:25
• Jeremiah — 4:18
• Zephaniah — 1:14

The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments

• Mandate 5 — 1:6

From the same root

No other words from the same root, ΠΙΚΡΑ, appear in our texts.

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